Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities:
Clinical Nursing Practice
- Work
as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver safe and high quality
care.
- Carries
out clinical nursing practice at an advanced level using expert clinical
skills, critical judgements & knowledge to deliver appropriate and
safe care.
·
Delivery of care
in line with NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care
- Treat
patients, performing specialist assessment of their needs and make referrals
as necessary to other members of the primary and secondary health care
teams as appropriate.
·
Co-ordinate the
planning and delivery of care ensuring patients and carers/relatives are
involved.
- Prescribing
and reviewing medication that is appropriate to patient needs and in
accordance with latest evidence-based practice, national and practice
protocols and within the scope of qualified practice.
- Diagnose
and manage acute and chronic conditions, including drug and non-drug based
treatment methods into a management plan.
·
Request
diagnostic investigations and interpret within agreed protocols e.g. x-ray,
blood tests, scans, etc.
- Assess,
diagnose and treat patients in practice premises or their own home who
require medical attention and/or refer to appropriate agency.
- Refers
patients to other members of the multi-disciplinary practice teams,
secondary care organisations and other organisations as necessary.
Care Management
·
Communicates confidential and sensitive
information to patients, relatives and carers in relation to their condition.
·
Provide highly specialised care advice
beyond the scope of normal Nursing practice e.g. care treatment plans, making
referrals as appropriate
·
Contribute to local and national
practice targets clinical remit e.g. QOF, prescribing incentive scheme,
National benchmarking.
·
To monitor and meet care outcomes
against standards and recommend or initiate changes as necessary.
Health Improvement
·
Management of health screening
programmes and ensures other team members are aware of health priorities and
screening objectives and programmes.
·
Innovation in practice to meet ongoing
demands on the practice’s delivery of care.
·
Improve health outcomes for patients by
introducing new developments, and can demonstrate them as reports and
presentations where appropriate.
·
Supports practitioners in reporting the
practice population to promote health improvement and disease prevention.
·
Makes referrals to appropriate agencies
(statutory and voluntary) where necessary
Providing
assessment, screening services, health education advice:
These may include (but not
restricted to);
- Blood pressure checks
- Urinalysis
- Dressings
- Contraception/ fitting contraceptive devices
- Routine immunisations and vaccinations
- Removal of sutures / clips
- Health surveillance / general health advice
- Organise and plan the provision of nursing
services for the practice to include the delegation of duties to other
members of the practice nurse team as appropriate
Administration
and professional responsibilities
·
Produce
accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation,
consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
- Participate in the
administrative and professional responsibilities of the practice team
- Accurate and legible
notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patient’s
notes
- Ensure clinical systems
kept up to date, recording and/or amending accurate details
- Ensure appropriate items
of service claims are made accurately, reporting any problems to the
practice administrator
- Ensure accurate
completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health
care and registration with the practice
- Attend and participate
in practice meetings as required
- Restocking and
maintenance of clinical areas and consulting rooms
Training and personal development
- Maintain up to date skills and knowledge,
maintaining awareness of professional issues at an advanced level.
- Training needs will be
monitored by yearly appraisal and will be in accordance with practice
requirements. Personal development will be encouraged and supported by the
practice.
·
Assess
effectiveness of care delivery through self-reflection and peer review, as well
as benchmarking and formal evaluation.
·
Contribute
to the identification and assessment of learning needs of staff and other
professionals and assist in planning effective programmes of education.
- Participate in the
education and training of students of all disciplines and the introduction
of all members of the practice staff where appropriate.
- Develop and maintain an
in house nurse-training programme reporting to the practice manager.
- Act as a mentor for
junior staff, assessing competence against set standards.
- Taking responsibility for own development,
learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others
who are undertaking similar work and ensure own educational commitment is
at least sufficient to maintain revalidation requirements.
- Develop and maintain a
Personal Learning Plan.
- Regularly participate in clinical
supervision.
Manage,
supervise, co-ordinate and guide the nursing team
- To manage the nursing
service in participation with the practice manager, ensuring relevant
information is disseminated to and from the nursing staff
- In participation with
the practice manager, carry out yearly appraisals of all the nursing staff
and produce a training programme.
- Ensure adequate nursing
cover is provided while within the practice guidelines, keeping the
practice manager informed of any problems
- Develop and maintain
practice policies and protocols for all nursing activity
- To be the infection
control lead in the practice and ensure all staff are aware of current
procedures
- To plan, chair and
minute management and training meetings for all nurses following the
training programme.
- Ensure agreed practice
audits are carried out
- Ensure the practice
manager is aware of any matters arising or problems / potential problems